What's your favorite pretentious game?
undertale
>>319734787
MGS2
>I Don't Know What "Pretentious" Means: The Thread
>>319734787
Shadow of the Colossus
Undermeme
It's a tough choice between gone home, depression quest, and undertale
The one where I pretend to fuck your mom right in the pussyI'm pretty bad at it because I always end up doing it for real.
>>319735350
Pretty much this. All of the mgs games are pretty pretentious, though.
mario 3
>>319736005
How in the fuck is Mario 3 pretentious?This game needs more good rom hacks, though. Pic related.
>>319734787
i wouldn't consider that too pretentious. just a little exploration game. kinda funny, interesting to see where stuff goes.
now, that dude's next game, that was pretentious. i normally save the word "pretentious" for people themselves but then it's pretty apt for the beginner's guide, since he just made a self-absorbed game about himself by talking about an imaginary person then getting all sad about talking about himself and being self-absorbed. how annoying and pointless.
as for my favorite pretentious game... i dunno, maybe the path by tale of tales. there aren't many games i'd call pretentious though, but those guys are absolutely pretentious. at least they provide an interesting audio visual experience, though they tend not to have any substance beyond that.
Gone HomoI genuinely enjoyed it
>>319735449
the stanley parable and the beginner's guide are pretty pretentious
Journey
Does bioshock infinite count? The devs thought their game was pretty deep.
>>319737240
pre·ten·tious
prəˈten(t)SHəs/
adjective
attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
Stanley Parable literally just wants to tell you a story about Stanley and his odd day at work.
Ico in the fact that its a bit dated of a game but i still have a t-shirt i got online because i like the game a lot on an aestethic value.
>>319741103
Yes, fuck that game.
Bioshock had a good story to backup its too deep for you but infinite just pissed me off and left a piss taste in my mouth
>>319741195
>Stanley Parable literally just wants to tell you a story about Stanley and his odd day at work.
Wrong , his "odd day" is just walking though biting social commentary rooms
>>319741642
>social commentary
Confirmed for too retarded to understand what Stanley Parable is about
>>319741642
joke commentary about what the player does, wouldn't really say it's social commentary
>>319741103
Bioshock Infinite is marketing's fault. Originally Bioshock Infinite was just called Infinite. It was a new LP where a detective investigated a flying city. there were no weapons besides your pistol, and players would use Elizabeth and her powers to get her to her freedom. It wasn't a FPS at all. You set traps, talked to people etc. Then Marketing was like, "this wont sell, tack your good idea onto something people like" so then it became a bioshock game. They add vigor's, and guns to the mix and almost removed talking completely. Then marketing came in again complaining about Elizabeth, saying she's too involved in the gameplay and how games with female hero's don't sell well. So they dumb own her to the point that the game is a giant escort mission with a person who gives you money and ammo, they were even forced to remove her from the cover of the box art.
Song bird was suppose to chase you through out the game originally, and be this epic last boss you fight but feel bad about fighting, those guys that track you by sound were originally the main enemy and filled the streets before they were forced to FPS the game up. Basically, Infinite and Bioshock Infinite were completely different ideas.
9 times out of 10 any problem you have with a video game or a company is with the marketing department. The game companies themselves don't even like marketing, but they are the ones that make sure their bills get paid so you got to put up with them.
>>319741642
>seeing deep meaning in everything
Confirmed for literature teacher
I just finished the beginners guide a few hours ago. Anyone want to talk about it? What do you think?
>>319734787
>pretentious
It wasnt really pretentious. It was bretty gud meta commentary that was a mindfuck the first time I played it.
However, have you seen the person who made it? That guy is pretentious as fuck and so was that newer game he made with the fictional story about some guy who never finished a game. That shit was off the charts pretensious and obnoxious.
I genuinely enjoyed Thomas Was Alone. The narrative was clever and fairly interesting, the gameplay itself worked hard at trying to stay fresh, and the story was engaging. Never had I though that I could grow to care for little colored rectangles so much.
If you've got the spare time and cash, I would recommend it.
I Wanna Be The Guy
Earthbound
>>319741987
It sucked.
>>319742298
Don't confuse 'pretentious' with 'Japanese'
>>319734787
killer7
>>319741987
what they said:
>>319742210
>>319737032
>>319742271
I guess it is a little pretentious to assume your game is so great that people will have the patience to sit through dying thousands of times
>>319742214
>Never had I though that I could grow to care for little colored rectangles so much
>newgrounds
>shapes collection
are we using 'favorite' ironically?
If that's the case, my 'favorite' is that game with the really low res graphics and no ability to run and the story that thinks it's way deeper than it actually is
I mean I've played it like a half dozen times over now
It had DIFFERENT NAMES EACH TIME, but still, exactly the same game
Nyctophilia, Home (no, not Gone Home, just Home), Uncanny Valley... I paid nothing to next to nothing for all of these and I still want my money back
and I say this having actually enjoyed games like Dear Esther, Stanley Parable, and even The Path which is about as I'M MAKING AAAAART as a game can get.
>>319734787
How fucking long until I can get that achievement?
spore
>>319741723
>>319741749
The game flat out admits that it's about mocking "videogame tropes and cliches" which is social commentary, which is pretentious unless can make you laugh.
Or did you not stand in the broom closet till the narrator thought you died and started shouting for a nearby person to replace the player with someone else who understands all the cliches in videogame mechanics and tropes in story telling.
I'm almost positive he used the word Trope.
>>319742271
I legitimately enjoyed this game. It was artificial difficulty to the highest degree but beating each part of it is so satisfying
>>319743027
>Spore
>Pretentious
I think you meant gut-wrenchingly disappointing and a constant reminder of the game we never got.
are we allowed to call Braid out on its shitty pretentious story, which was shitty and pretentious enough on its surface where it appears to be about literally getting friendzoned but no, IT'S ALL DEEP MAAAAN, IT'S REALLY, IT'S ABOUT THE ATOM BOMB MAAAAAAN YOU DIDN'T GET IT BECAUSE IT'S TOO DEEP
I mean the game itself is a middling-to-decent puzzle platformer, it's the story itself that can suck a dick, and in fact does, its own, quite vigorously actually
>>319743183
>I'm almost positive he used the word Trope.
oh, you're one of THOSE guys
I bet you use 'meme' as an adjective too don't you, you shit burglar.
Majora's Mask.
>>319743183
>videogame tropes
>social commentary
I think you are trying to be pretentious, without even knowing about it.
>Ctrl-F "Spec"
>No results found
C'mon, this shit is the one thing we can all agree was pretentious.
>>319743379
>HEY LOOK GUIZ VIDEO GANE TROPE #2532, AREN'T I SO SMART XD 4TH WALL BREAKING HUH
>not pretentious
Ok tell me what is pretentious to you
>>319743560
Fuck, I meant Spec Ops The Line
>>319743635
literally not a thing that happens in Stanley Parable
look dude I get it in-depth discussion of topics isn't for everyone, you might just want to head back over to /tv/ and get your banepost on.
>>319743560
>>319743706
I liked Spec Ops: The Line. I thought it did a decent job of putting the player in the mind of a person with PTSD.
I don't play modern military shooters though, so I thought it was a bit condescending how it was like YOU SHOULD HAVE TURNED OFF THE GAME, BUT YOU WANTED TO BE A HERO when I didn't come to Spec Ops: The Line to be a 'hero' in the way it meant.
>>319743635
Now he is mad all of the sudden.
>>319743916
>u mad bro xD
Wow nice retort
Has anyone played Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald? I thought it was pretty crappy, the idea was ok but the execution was terrible. Also really should have been a bit longer.
>>319742474
Any answer other than Killer 7 is wrong
Braid. Fez is up there, but I don't know if it's pretentious, or just Fishlad.
I also hate the word pretentious when it comes to creative media.
>>319744245
Fez is just a game about collecting cubes tho.
>>319744407
The only thing wrong in the game where wasting such good character designs on characters who lacked purpose or personality. And possible the easy as fuck game play.
The bad ending is fucking great though.
>>319742948
you can just change the date on your computer's clock to get it
>>319743183
A sly commentary on the nature of game design is not pretentious. Had it maybe patted itself on the back a whole lot for "being clever", MAYBE you'd have a point. But the fact remains that Stanley Parable is hardly pretentious, it's like a good indie film; it tells the story it wants to and that's it.
Is yume nikki pretentious? I like it a lot.
>>319745429
Doubtful. That shit was trippy as fuck and probably one of the closest things in game to capture the abstract nature of dreams
>>319745479
Oh, well thats good. I need to find a pretentious game i like then.
>>319745429
No since the guy who made it had no pretensions at greatness (not looking for cash) nor did he make it for anyone but himself.
>>319743706
it's one of those games you can only really play once or twice at full effect.
The magic is gone after you experience the story once.
>>319740494
This one.
>>319743903
Yea. The game itself may not be pretentious, but the fans who can't do anything but cry "you could have always turned off the game" are certainly so.
>>319737240
Neither of them are pretentious you fucking mongoloid. They're a comedic commentary on videogame design.
Jesus fuck.
>>319743991
>if I mistranslate his post, it'll make HIM look like the memer
Now you're just acting like a retard
>>319741809
I still remember thinking "oh my God they're going to do it" when they had the millions of pin prick stars above the light house. "The absolute madman is going to tie in System Shock with Bioshock, this game ISN'T going to end up being a big let down"
I couldn't have been more let down.
>>319743916
>all of the sudden
>>319741809
Huh. I always figured it was meant to be tied with Bioshock, but just in a more "same universe" way like Vagrant Story and FF Tactics-12 where none of the games really affect each other.
Shame though with what happened. I was all stoked about how you were meant to be considerate with your reliance on Liz's power, else her condition could become a problem
>>319741195
Do you not know how words work? People use pretentious to mean games that try-hard which can mean to just try and make a story bigger than being a little bit of fun, like just saying something personal or "important" to them. Considering how it's a relative perception anything above the lowest common denominator can become pretentious.
>>319746612
Words can't just be twisted to mean whatever others want them to. Christ, do you think MILF can be applied to any attractive older woman even though the acronym literally denotes the KEY quality about them?
>>319746612
>People use pretentious to mean games that try-hard
>instead of "try-hard"
I don't think YOU know how words work.
>>319740494
What was pretentious about that?
D2 on Dreamcast. Love the game to death but the ending is the worst.
Gone Home. Ignore all the IRL drama and it's pretty much a comfy walking simulator. Not even baiting
>>319743323
>That almost perfect summary of braid.
The only part you got wrong is that its actually a decent-great puzzle platformer. Nice art, great music, great gameplay/puzzles that get fairly challenging, but the story acting like its anything more than what it is just atrocious.
The guy should have just left its interpretation as it really is, friendzoned butthurt-man realizes hes creepy bitch negra.
The guy who made it, like the stanley parable dude, was also I'm that indie game movie. They both look like some weird motherfuckers.
i'm so fucking glad more people understand that stanley parable, beginners guide, and undertale are pretentious indie games.
>>319745880
>comedic commentary on videogame design
>not pretentious
ok m80
Life is Strange, it allows me to play out my fantasies of being a little girl
Undertale
I fucking love the soundtrack and gameplay was ok, but story is a big letdown and I couldn't find a single character to genuinely care about. True Pacifist ending felt 500% cringy, and it seems that I have to walk long ass time to do Genocide, so I just dropped it before even fighting Toriel. The pacing is also atrocious, slow movement speed and gradually appearing text with annoying sounds; visuals switch from color to b&w which is very jarring. Game's barely worth a playthrough, but again, OST is god tier, and it did have some good moments unlike most of indie shit.
>stanley parable
>pretentious
That's ok, OP.
A lot of people use words without knowing what they mean
Bloodbourne
>>319734787
Everything Stanley Parable did Bioshock did earlier and it actually had gameplay and the themes of the game in general tied to it.
Metro Last Light was pretentious as fuck.
